Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] is Postgres an SQL-based database? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

> >      In this release there's a very useful function LENGTH(), thanks to Thomas.
> >      but it's not SQL. CHARACTER_LENGTH() or CHAR_LENGTH() this is SQL.
> Perhaps we can translate function names in the parser as we do for type
> names? I'll look into it...

I have gram.y patches to do this. No visible effect on the regression execution speed,
which thanks to Bruce is on my machine down to a record 2:23 elapsed execution time;
the last speeds were in the 2:31 range.

I'm planning on bumping the gram.y cvs version to 2.0 for this change, due to the
_large_ number of accumulated improvements. Any objections?

                                                      - Tom